It does matter that it's the Olympics. I just did it my way. I'm not a martyr, and I'm not a do-gooder. I just want to go out and rock. And man, I ro….

There's been times when I've been in really tough shape at the top of the course. Talk about a hard challenge right there. I mean, if you ever tried ….

Obviously, you always want to win, but you want to win by skiing a race that you're proud of and you feel like you really challenged yourself and lef….

Sometimes it's all about the win, sometimes it's about the skiing..

The same people who recognize I came out with no medals should recognize I could have won three..

I like to keep my private life private for the most part..

At this point in my career, I have the privilege of choosing my partners. In the beginning, you more or less take what comes in the door - or what ma….

I still love racing and the challenge of it, but at some point, you get to a place where you're perfectly happy moving on and doing other stuff..

One of the really important things about the Olympics is, to enjoy yourself, you have to accept that it's different and feed off the enthusiasm of ev….

I had crashes when I was small and Gumby-like that would have killed me now. I would just fly off jumps and go 40 or 50 meters when I was 6 years old….

I don't care what other people's judgments come down to-I care what my judgments come down to..

The best way to protect your own freedom is to watch everybody else's back. That's the essence of community..

I've been myself my whole life..

My goal is the same as every year - to not hurt myself..

It is not that I don't recognize the danger in ski racing, but that I don't fear the consequences..

Sometimes I'm disciplined, but I like to be a total slacker, too. I party hard, but I train hard..

It's important for me to live my life honestly..

Once the season starts for me, there isn't a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies..

My grandfather was very into horse racing, and I found some of his old journals and got into it from there. It has a lot of parallels to skiing. It's….

It's nice, being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier..

There's so many guys skiing so fast right now that you really have to be willing to take a lot of risks if you want to give yourself a chance to win.….